{"id":2067,"date":"2011-09-29T23:09:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2067"},"modified":"2013-11-07T23:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:00:51","slug":"splashing-sparrows-and-a-small-swarm-of-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/splashing-sparrows-and-a-small-swarm-of-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Splashing Sparrows and a small swarm of bees&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The summer weather continues, much to the delight of these sparrows who were enjoying a muddy bath down at the pond.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sparrow_2909114383.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sparrow_2909114420.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sparrow_2909114424.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sparrow_2909114475.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sparrow_2909114491.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>They weren&#39;t the only birds enjoying the weather.  The early light brought out the soft patterns of this female mallard perfectly<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/duck_2909114326.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And the young moorhens were strolling along the bank.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/moorhen_2909114329.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>That was during the day. As I was leaving work tonight a colleague pointed me in the direction of a small swarm of bees. The swarm has gathered on a recycling skip (now ribboned off to prevent disturbance). There were more there yesterday apparently. I&#39;ll be checking on them again tomorrow. Carefully!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bees_2909114534.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bees_2909114547.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bees_2909114552.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I had a fleeting sight of a fox this evening \ud83d\ude42  but they remain determined to avoid the camera \ud83d\ude41<br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[993,980,989],"tags":[1145,1160,1172,264,785],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bee-insects-2","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-bee","tag-duck","tag-moorhen","tag-sparrow","tag-swarm","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}